i know, it’s sad. i was the only person to comment on last week’s show. maybe sean is pulling some strings backstage to force everyone to become a patron ????

Never saw Field of Dreams until a couple of years ago. Was surprised back then that the field is built merely 30 minutes into the film which then becomes a sort of road movie. Checking on my Letterboxd review it seems like I too had issues with the Hot Dog choke/slap thing.

The only problem is that early access is also a Patreon perk, so the show gets posted there first. Maybe an option is to lock comments for the regular episodes on Patreon, although I feel like that could stifle discussion as well.

I agree it sucks that the community has been divided but in some ways Patreon has created a stronger community than we ever had on the regular site. Maybe the right answer is to shut down this site and move everything to Patreon, which I have been resisting but may be inevitable. Then we just make the regular episodes public after a day and the comments stay in one place. I agree that their comment system sucks though.

Yep, trust me, I’ve been thinking about this for a long time but haven’t been able to figure out what the next step for the site should be. I don’t have time to write as much anymore and we really just want to put most of the focus on the podcast itself.

A lot of podcasts don’t have websites at all and their community mostly exists on social media. I don’t know if that’s right for us, but we definitely don’t lean into social media as much we could.

We do have something cool in the works that could help push us in a particular direction. And I may reach out to the community for more ideas and feedback in the near future. But thanks to the folks out there who are still reading this.

I don’t know, I think we’re seeing less action on the site because let’s face it this is the worst year in cinema history (the actual worst year as opposed to every other year Frank has said this), and there’s not that much to talk about. Add to that the fact that the guys can’t sit in the same room which slightly changes the dynamic, and I guess that might explain it.
Once the pandemic starts to die down I’m sure things would get back to normal. I’m a new listener (2017) but to me the podcast just keeps getting better and funnier each year (have listened back to 2014). Don’t eulogize Film Junk just yet!